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East Asia’s Evolving Regional Order
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- Cyber Attacks
This kind of a breach in a government department in charge of UK defence is ‘significant,’ cyber security expert James Sullivan said. Sullivan, director of cyber research at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and cyber security think-tank in London, told Metro.co.uk: ‘By nature, any data that is compromised in an organisation like that is a serious incident.’
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber Research
- Russia-North Korea Relations
Late last year, a series of Russian senior leadership visits to North Korea were focused on solving Russia's growing demand for weapons, artillery shells and missiles to support its war in Ukraine. Although Russia has denied that it imports North Korean weapons, the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) has been tracking ships transporting weapons to Russia. It has tracked four Russian cargo ships, each transporting hundreds of containers.
- Illicit Finance
Banking experts told ICIJ that accounts involving the pornography industry are considered high risk and warrant additional scrutiny. “These transactions should have definitely raised a red flag and the account treated as higher risk with enhanced monitoring,” said Kathryn Westmore, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security at RUSI, a think tank in London. “The fact that the transactions are related to an adult webcam company should almost certainly have prompted further investigation into the source of the funds to ascertain whether any of the funds have been generated from illegal activities or illicit content.” She added: “For many banks, an account like this will be far outside their risk appetite and I suspect they’d want to exit the account as quickly as possible.”
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
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